On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Clarke wrote on 28 July 2008 18:54: > >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Paolo Carlini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Dennis Clarke wrote: >>>> >>>> also, IMO, the NEWS sections says nothing useful to any human. >>>> >>> >>> but, *some* humans like to click on the first (download) link on top. >> >> where ? >> >> It says >> >> Availability >> The releases are available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/ and its >> mirrors. >> >> which has glibc-2.7.tar.bz2 as the latest. >> >> hold on .. on the NEWS page I see ... okay .. how very user friendly. >> Sort of the thing one would put on the project homepage I would think. > > It's not the NEWS page; it's a link to the source of the NEWS file stored > in the glibc CVS repository. > > The gnu.org page is rather out of date, and a bit obfuscated. > > Most GNU projects have a prominent link in their gnu.org directory page to > the actual project home page; in this case it's tucked away on the > "resources" page in the "Project website" section. (Oh, and it still points > to "sources.redhat.com", which is a sign of just how out-of-date that > gnu.org page really is...) > > Follow that link, and you'll see the *real* project home, with the real > news and the real latest-release info, and the real list of mailing lists, > and the wiki, and ...
the *real* wiki ? :-) Dennis ps: I used CVS to get the sources.
